OLYMPIC GAMES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 August 1936, Page 5

OLYMPIC GAMES

APPEAL BY DR. GOEBBELS. LONDON, Friday. The special correspondent of the Australian Associated Press at Berlin says at a dinner in honour of 1200 international journalists, photographers and broadcast announcers who are attending the Olympic Games, the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, said: “As Ave respect your opinions, it is only just you should respect ours in the new Germany. That is a response which all journalists, whether from democratic or autocratic countries, should make. We have been reproached for employing the Olympiad as political propaganda. As Minister of Propaganda I know of no such intention, but Ave Avant. you to see for yourselves, and you Avill see smiling faces everyAvhere. We have been reproached for not alloAving a free public opinion. You Avill realise Ave have more important things to do than gming absolute liberty. You Avill see Avhat the neAv Germany Avants. I hope tho Olympiad festival Avill be a contribution to the peace and happiness of the nations. ’ ’ THE TORCH INCIDENT. VIENNA, Friday. A semi-official statement says that the demonstration marking the arrival of the Olympic torch Avas planned ahead. Leniency cannot be shoAvn to the demonstrators, because they personally attacked Herr Miklas and abused the German Chancellor. BRITISH TEAM ARRIVES. BERLIN, Friday. The British athletes have arrived, and Avere cordially Avelcomed by large croAvds. The King sent a message of good Avishes. MEDICAL EXAMINATION. AMERICAN SUGGESTION. (Received Saturday/9.55 a.m.) BERLIN, Friday. America has recommended to the International Olympic Committee that all Avomen competitors should be medicallv examined in A'ieAV of the Koub-koAA-a case. A cable from Prague cn 28th December last stated that “Miss” IvoublcoAva successfully undeiwent an operation to change her into a man,' and resumed Avorlc as a bookmaker’s clerk. She Avas the AA’omen’s AA-orld track champion. THE OLYMPIC FLAME. WILDLY WELCOMED. (Received Saturday, 9.55 a.m.) BERLIN, Friday. The Olympic flame Avas Avildly Avelcomed at the German frontier. The International Committee aAvarded the 1940 summer games to Tokio by 36 votes to 26 votes. The venue of the Avinter games Avill be decided next year.

A TEAM DISPUTE. BRAZILIANS NOT COMPETING. (Received Saturday, 11.25 a.m.)' BERLIN, Friday. The Brazilian Olympic team is not participating in track, field, swimming and rowing events, owing to a team dispute. THE STAGE SET. FOR AN IMPRESSIVE SHOW. (Received Saturday, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. The Associated Press Berlin correspondent says that four years of preparations for the greatest event in the world’s athletic history will be brought to a climax when the last runner bearing the torch from Olympia reaches Berlin at 12.30 p.m. to-morrow in readiness for lighting the Olympic fire which will be burned throughout the Games.

Ilerr Hitler will arrive at the stadium at four p.m. Thei Olympic bell then calls the youth of the world, followed by a procession of teams, an address by the president of the organising committee, Herr Hitler’s opening address, the hoisting of the Olympic flag, the releasing of 12,000 pigeons, the salute of artillery, the singing of the Olympic hymn, the arrival of the torch relay runner, the lighting of the Olympic fire, and the taking of the Olympic oath by a German competitor on behalf of all the athletes, after which the teams will march out.

Saturday’s programme will be exclusively ceremonial. The competitive events will commence at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday. Thus the stage is set for what should be a most" impressive show even for a land to which ceremony and display lias constituted the breath of life in the past three years. It is certain that anything Germany can do to prevent discord at the Olympiad' will be done. What will happen afterwards is a subject too profound for

discussion in this heady air. VAST CROWDS. POURED INTO BERLIN. (Received Saturday, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. Th'e ‘ 1 Sun-Herald ’’ Agency’s. Berlin correspondent says that the vastness of the crowd ‘which poured into Berlin can best be judged by the fact that 3,500,000 admission tickets have been sold. It is impossible to buy further seats. The Olympiad organising committee, in order to minimise disappointment, has placed a chain of amplifiers, in the streets through which every proceeding of the Games will be described.